Is it possible to automatically check time then execute certain codes?
timer = os.date('%H:%M:%S', os.time() - 13 * 60 * 60 )
if timer == "18:04:40" then
print("hello")
end
I am trying to print hello on "18:04:40" everyday (os.date's time) without setting up a timer (which counts how much time past since the program's initiation) as I can't run the program 24 hours non-stop...
Thanks for reading.
This may not be the best solution but, when using a library like love2d for example you could run something like this:
function love.update(dt)
timer = os.date('%H:%M:%S', os.time() - 13 * 60 * 60 )
if timer >= value then
--stuff here
end
end
Or if you wanna make it so you have a whole number something like
tick = 0
function love.update(dt)
tick = tick + dt
if tick > 1 then
timer = os.date('%H:%M:%S', os.time() - 13 * 60 * 60 )
if timer >= value then
--stuff here
end
end
end
Lua has to check the time in some way.
Without a loop that can be realized with debug.sethook().
Example with Lua 5.1 typed in an interactive Lua (lua -i)...
> print(_VERSION)
Lua 5.1
> debug.sethook() -- This clears a defined hook
> -- Next set up a hook function that fires on 'line' events
> debug.sethook(function() local hour, min, sec = 23, 59, 59 print(os.date('%H:%M:%S', os.time({year = 2021, month = 12, day = 11, hour = hour, min = min, sec = sec}))) end, 'l')
-- just hit return/enter or do other things
23:59:59
5.9 - The Debug Library
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.9
I have a VBS file with the following code:
dtsnow = Now()
hours = Right("00" & Hour(dtsnow), 2)
minutes = Right("00" & Minute(dtsnow), 2)
Do
If hours > 10 And minutes > 30 Then
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Popup "ok", 0, "Window title"
End If
WScript.sleep 2000 'every 2 seconds
Loop
If I run the file for example at 11:31, the popup is apperaed every 2 seconds, as expected. But if I run the file e.g. at 11:30 i.e. then clock minutes are not more than 30 and then wait a few minutes, the popup doesn't appear when clock minutes are more than 30 while the loop checks the time every 2 seconds.
Why?
I need to output to the console the calendar of the current month in Ruby. The result should be similar to ncal on UNIX-like systems. I found a solution for C ++ but can't adapt for Ruby. So far, I only realized that I need to use nested loops to output the height and width. Tell me in which direction to move?
require 'date'
days = %w[Mun Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun]
puts " #{Date::MONTHNAMES[Date.today.month]} #{Date.today.year}"
i = 0
start_month = (Date.today - Date.today.mday + 1).strftime("%a")
while i < days.size
print days[i]
j = 1
while j <= 31
if days[i] == start_month
print " #{j}"
end
j += 7
end
i += 1
puts
end
I'll take your solution so far, and try to give some specific pointers for how to progress with it - but of course, there are many different ways to approach this problem in general, so this is by no means the only approach!
The first critical issue (as you're aware!) is that you're only printing things for the row starting on the 1st of the month, due to this line:
if days[i] == start_month
Sticking with the current overall design, we know we'll need to print something for every line, so clearly a conditional like this isn't going to work. Let's try removing it.
Firstly, it will be more convenient to know which day of the week the month started on as a number, not a string, so we can easily calculate offsets against another day. Let's do that with:
# e.g. for 1st July 2021 this was a Thursday, so we get `4`.
start_of_month_weekday = (Date.today - Date.today.mday + 1).cwday
Next (and this is the crucial step!), we can use the above information to find out "which day of the month is it, on this day of the week?"
Here a first version of that calculation, incorporated into your solution so far:
require 'date'
days = %w[Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun]
puts " #{Date::MONTHNAMES[Date.today.month]} #{Date.today.year}"
i = 0
# e.g. for 1st July 2021 this was a Thursday, so we get `4`.
start_of_month_weekday = (Date.today - Date.today.mday + 1).cwday
while i < days.size
print days[i]
day_of_month = i - start_of_month_weekday + 2 # !!!
while day_of_month <= 31
print " #{day_of_month}"
day_of_month += 7
end
i += 1
puts
end
This outputs:
July 2021
Mon -2 5 12 19 26
Tue -1 6 13 20 27
Wed 0 7 14 21 28
Thu 1 8 15 22 29
Fri 2 9 16 23 30
Sat 3 10 17 24 31
Sun 4 11 18 25
Not bad! Now we're getting somewhere!
I'll leave you to figure out the rest 😉 .... But here are some clues, for what I'd tackle next:
This code, print " #{day_of_month}", needs to print a "blank space" if the day number is less than 1. This could be done with a simple if statement.
Similarly, since you want this calendar to line up neatly in a grid, you need this code to always print a something two characters wide. sprintf is your friend here! Check out the "Examples of width", about halfway down the page.
You've hardcoded 31 for the number of days in the month. This should be fixed, of course. (Use the Date library!)
It's funny how you used strftime("%a") in one place, yet constructed the calendar title awkwardly in the line above! 😄 Take a look at the documentation for formatting dates; it's extremely flexible. I think you can use: Date.today.strftime("%B %Y").
If you'd like to add some colour (or background colour?) to the current day of the month, consider doing something like this, or use a library to assist.
Using while loops works OK, but is quite un-rubyish. In 99% of cases, ruby has even better tools for the job; it's a very expressive language - iterators are king! (I'm guessing you first learned another language, before ruby? Seeing while loops, and/or for loops, is a dead giveaway that you're more familiar with a different language.) Instead of the outer while loop (while i < days.size), you could use days.each_with_index. And instead of the inner while loop (while j < 31), you could use day_of_month.step(31, 7) (how cool is that!!).
This is one way:
Construct a one-dimensional array, beginning with the daynames (Mon Tue ...).
Figure out a way to determine with how many "blanks" the month starts (these are days from the previous month. wday might help). Attach that amount of empty strings to the array.
Determine how many days the month has (hint Date.new(2021,7,-1), and attach all these daynumbers to the array.
Attach empty strings to the array until the size of the array is divisible by 7 (or better, calculate). Skip this if you're skipping the last bullet.
Convert all elements of this array to right-adjusted strings of size 3 or some-such.
Use each_slice(7) to slice the array into weeks.
If desired, transpose this array of week-slices to mimic the ncal output.
Thank you for your help, literally 10 hours and I figured it out thanks to you. I apologize once again for the initially incorrectly posed question.
With the help of hints, I assembled such a solution.
require 'date'
days = %w[Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun]
p days
blanks = Date.new(2021,7,1).wday - 1
blanks.times do
days.push(' ')
end
days_in_month = Date.new(2021, 7, -1).day
days_in_month
day = 1
while day <= days_in_month
days.push(day)
day += 1
end
unless (days.size % 7) == 0
days.push(' ')
end
days.join(', ')
new_arr = days.each_slice(7).to_a
puts"Массив дней: #{new_arr}"
for i in 0...7
for j in 0...new_arr.size
print " #{new_arr[j][i]}"
end
puts
end
require 'date'
# init
DAYS_ORDER = ['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun']
today = Date.today
month = today.month
year = today.year
first_day = Date.new(year, month, 1)
last_day = Date.new(year, month, -1)
hash_days = {}
# get all current months days and add to hash_days
first_day.upto(last_day) { |day| hash_days[day.day] = day.strftime('%a') }
# group by wday
grouped_hash = hash_days.group_by { |day| day.pop }.transform_values { |days| days.flatten }
# sort by wday from DAYS_ORDER
sorted_arr = grouped_hash.sort_by { |k, v| DAYS_ORDER.index(k) }
# rendering current month's calendar with mark current day
## title
print "\x1b[4m#{today.strftime("%B %Y")}\x1b[0m\n"
## calendar
indent = true
sorted_arr.each do |wday, days|
print wday
if days[0] != 1 && indent == true
print " "
else
indent = false
end
days.each do |value|
spaces = " " * (value > 9 ? 1 : 2)
str_day = spaces + value.to_s
current_day = "\x1b[1;31m#{str_day}\x1b[0m"
print value == today.day ? current_day : str_day
end
puts
end
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I want to trigger a notification for all my users at a specific time in their time zone. I want to compute the delay the server should wait before firing the notification. I can compute the time at the users Time Zone using Time.now.in_time_zone(person.time_zone)
I can strip out the hours, minutes and seconds from that time and find out the seconds remaining to the specific time. However, I was wondering if there's a more elegant method where I could set 9:00 AM on today and tomorrow in a timezone and compare it with Time.now.in_time_zone(person.time_zone) and just find out the number of seconds using arithmetic operations in the ruby Time Class.
Or in short my question is: (was: before the downvote!)
How do I compute the number of seconds to the next 9:00 AM in New York?
What about this
next9am = Time.now.in_time_zone(person.time_zone).seconds_until_end_of_day + 3600 * 9
next9am -= 24 * 60 * 60 if Time.now.in_time_zone(person.time_zone).hour < 9
NOTIFICATION_HOUR = 9
local_time = Time.now.in_time_zone(person.time_zone)
desired_time = local_time.hour >= NOTIFICATION_HOUR ? local_time + 1.day : local_time
desired_time = Time.new(desired_time.year, desired_time.month, desired_time.day, NOTIFICATION_HOUR, 0, 0, desired_time.utc_offset)
return desired_time - local_time
I have some code here in TCL that tries to measure the time between two dates.
The two first work, but as you see the last one not working; it counts totally wrong, as there can only be 12 month in a year, but this has more than that.
Anyway, I think that the leap year is the problem, but I'm not sure. Can you help?
proc isTimeAgo {t1} {
set t2 "1387524660"
#set t2 [clock seconds]
set cnt [expr {(($t2 - $t1) / 31536000)}]
set cur [clock add $t1 $cnt years]
set res {}
foreach unit {years months weeks days hours minutes seconds} {
while {$cur <= $t2} {
set cur [clock add $cur 1 $unit]
incr cnt
}
set cur [clock add $cur -1 $unit]
incr cnt -1
if {$cnt} {
lappend res $cnt $unit
}
set cnt 0
}
return $res
}
puts "1: [isTimeAgo "1355988659"]"
puts "2: [isTimeAgo "1355988660"]"
puts "3: [isTimeAgo "1355988661"]"
proc days_per_month year {
set leap [expr {($year%4)==0 && (!($year%400) || ($year%100))}]
set days [list 31 [expr {$leap ? 29 : 28}] 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31]
return $days
}
The result of this is:
1: 1 years 1 seconds <- Correct
2: 1 years <- Correct
3: 11 months 4 weeks 1 days 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds <- Wrong
Date and time arithmetic is astonishingly hard to get right because what people mean by it is so thoroughly uncertain. When adding an interval to a time, you've got to add the years before the months (because of leap years), the months before the days (because of varying month lengths), and the days before the times (because of DST changes). This is sufficiently tricky that we've got a command that handles the complexity: clock add (requires at least Tcl 8.5). Going in the reverse direction? It's a matter of trying each unit until you overshoot.
proc getInterval {from to} {
set result {}
foreach unit {year month week day hour minute second} {
set n 0
while 1 {
set new [clock add $from 1 $unit]
if {$new > $to} break
set from $new
incr n
}
lappend result $n $unit
}
return $result
}
Let's try that out:
% getInterval 1355988659 [clock seconds]
1 year 4 month 0 week 6 day 6 hour 52 minute 39 second
I suppose we could add in ensuring that from precedes to and omit items that are zero. I'll leave those as an exercise.
Be aware that you might need to change the locale and timezone used by clock add to get the answer you are expecting (using the -locale and -timezone options, respectively). See the documentation for exactly what this may affect and some examples.